Happy Valentine's Day!

[eldritchhobbit]

To all of you, my friends, a very happy Valentine's Day! :)

In honor of the occasion, a quote:

Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is,
All the air is thy Diocese,
And all the chirping choristers
And other birds are thy parishioners,
Thou marryest ever year
The lyric Lark, and the grave whispering Dove,
The Sparrow that neglects his life for love,
The household bird, with the red stomacher;
Thou maks't the black bird speed as soon,
As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halycon;
The husband cock looks out, and straight is sped,
And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
This day more cheerfully than ever shine,
This day, which might enflame thy self, old Valentine.

Till now, thou warmd'st with mutiplying loves
Two larks, two sparrows, or two doves,
All that is nothing unto this,
For thou this day couplest two Phoenixes;
Thou mak'st a Taper see
What the sun never saw, and what the Ark
(Which was of fowls, and beasts, the cage and park,)
Did not contain, one bed contains, through thee,
Two Phoenixes, whose joined breasts
Are unto one another mutual nests,
Where motion kindles such fires, as shall give
Young Phoenixes, and yet the old shall love.
Whose love and courage never shall decline,
But make the whole year through, thy day, O Valentine....

from John Donne, "An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song, On the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine's Day"

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Awwwww indeed! :) I usually despise romantic comedies with a deep and pervasive hatred (weird but true), but not so with Love Actually. I give the credit to Billy Mack. Isn't he a hoot? I am so psyched that Bill Nighy is going to be Slartibartfast in the new Hitchhiker's Guide film. He will rule. :) Thanks for your replies! And happy late hearts day to you, too!

[fungus-files.livejournal.com]

I usually despise romantic comedies with a deep and pervasive hatred

ah, that's cos you're composed of cynical (but upbeat!) bones, A. :) romantic comedies and cynical bones don't mix.

and re new hitchhiker's - o yes, I can't wait for it to screen. methinks the flick has a lot of fan-angst riding on it. you can already feel the maelstroms of geek outrage if something is awry. hurrah for geek outrage!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

ah, that's cos you're composed of cynical (but upbeat!) bones, A. :) romantic comedies and cynical bones don't mix.

There you go! That makes perfect sense! You know, I couldn't make it through It's A Wonderful Life until I learned that one whole school of thought reads it as a dark satire. Then I could watch it -- and I laughed and laughed and laughed. It's not that I don't believe in true love -- I do, from personal experience. I just don't believe in Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, or any of the orher Usual Suspects. :)

I originally was persuaded to see LA because of the fact it was a film with both Alan Rickman and Liam Neeson. (Let's face it: I'd pay money to watch those two clip their toenails for two hours.) And now I'm so very glad I saw it, because I would've been sorry if I'd missed Billy Mack!

methinks the flick has a lot of fan-angst riding on it. you can already feel the maelstroms of geek outrage if something is awry. hurrah for geek outrage!

Hurrah indeed! Good point. Should be lots of fun.